2. Wonderful Office 2010-13-16 Tip

When working on my laptop, I often close the ribbon to get more working room. Here is the shortcut for quickly showing or closing the ribbon. Quickly double click the Home ribbon (on the word Home). Try it. You’ll like it.

3. Do you use Outlook and/or Excel? Then you mustn’t miss my two brand new online learning programs. They’ll rock your world

Outlook: Ease Your Pain. Enhance Your Gain 16 ‘wow’ inspiring tips that will show you how to free up at least two working weeks a year managing email; as well as how to turn Outlook into a fabulous customer relationship management program (CRM).

Excel: Work Smarter & Save Days Working with Lists and Databases Excel is a simply fabulous program to work with, and not just for numbers. The 16 tips will show wonderful hidden shortcuts, features and how-to’s that are going to save not hours, but days. If you work with lists or databases, learn secrets for swiftly cleaning, massaging and correcting information to create your business goldmine.

4. Know Your Numbers. Achieve Your Goals

Activity equal success, however what type of activity do you need to accomplish to achieve your sales/income targets?

If you want to increase turnover by 10%; or increase your income by $25,000 or earn the same but work only four days a week, what does this actually mean to you in terms of daily activity?

By taking what seems an enormous undertaking – your income / sales goal, and breaking it down into a daily (or weekly) working plan, you can achieve your goal. But first, you have to spend some time working out your numbers.

Knowing your numbers translates into a daily to do list that accomplished, will enable you to achieve, even exceed your targets.

Click here for a simple example of how to work out exactly how much time you need to work on sales each day to meet your sales target. It’s assuming you’ve decided to split your activity evenly between new and existing customers.

5. Help With Your Online Communications

I met Tina Trenkner-Meade a few weeks ago. Tina is in a high profile social media editing position, but she also does contract work. If you need online help – email her now

Tina can help you with:

Review of your online content strategy (what to put online and how to be sure it’s found)

Online content creation (from a highly experienced writer and digital editor) to give you interesting content that pulls customers in

Social media consulting (which social sites will work best for your goals)